Hi Nick, instead of being a dick, I want to first of all thank you for understanding the urgency (despite being on a public bus, you took the pains to get it temporarily fixed somehow). Like others, I do agree that posting on HN does more good than bad, but at the same time, I do understand that it is also polite to inform the maintainers too (which I think in your case they didn't.). Anyway, thank you for being a responsible maintainer!
Once again, Thank you for maintaining rubygems.org! You're doing a great job :)
Cheers,
Neya